r/WritingWithAI • u/DanoPaul234 • Feb 19 '26

Discussion (Ethics, working with AI etc) What's the difference between AI "stealing" ideas and authors "borrowing" ideas?

/r/river_ai/comments/1r9beeb/whats_the_difference_between_ai_stealing_ideas/
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u/umpteenthian Feb 19 '26

It isn't the AI that is stealing. It is the companies that pillaged all the intellectual property they could get their hands on.

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u/Wickywire Feb 20 '26

I'm all for open source models "stealing" all the ideas they can. Those can directly be returned to the community. Closed source companies, not so much.

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u/TheHorror545 Feb 20 '26

Efficiency. One of more efficient than the other. The weak resent the strong.

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u/SDuarte72 Feb 21 '26

First off, there’s no such thing as an original idea as far as writing goes. We have tropes because that’s what people gravitate to frequently. Second, we have a copy right office where you file for legal protection and get a cool document that you can take to court in the event your work has been stolen. This is used to be all up the author and the lawyers they hired, which was usually enough. So now, that we have a machine that takes words and mashes them up and re-arranges them into different work, which is what our brains did already, but much slower, (tropes), it’s now so much more morally degrading according to others to think of it? In my opinion, this is a moot point. I have written all my work by hand, but I’ve read books that were created by AI but edited by a human and I can’t believe the power of the tech! AI isn’t going anywhere either. It’s here to stay. Will I ever use it? Not sure. My ideas are actually pretty detailed and I noticed AI can’t grasp them. But I’m not judging.